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Wukan Elections

http://chinageeks.org/2012/03/the-wukan-elections-on-social-media
SWEET! So after the riots, I haven’t heard much about purges of random protesters, or the return of old officials (yet). So before that comes down the road, it’s not a bad idea to celebrate with an election! Bloomberg doesn’t give the newly elected Village Chief/”Village Committee Head”‘s name, but China Times tells us his name is 林祖鑾 (Lin, Zu Luan), who won with 3400 votes. Out of a total population of 8363, they received 6899 ballots, which equates to 82.49% voting rate. You can’t even get that in America, where the Amurrk’ns claim they created democracy!

What’s interesting is according to China Times:

書面委託或電話委託投票者，一人最多可以幫3個人投，所以常可見到一人領4張空白票，坐定慢慢寫名字。
Voters can mail in or phone in, with one person able to vote on behalf of 3 other people, so it was common to see 1 person with 4 white ballots, sitting down to slowly write down names.

Well, according to China Times, it’s more like, “One person, one vote, by proxy, of which one person has four votes.” Which sounds like a very interesting way of carry out democracy. What would Chairman Mao have to say about this?